I think you need to force it to use two different profiles. I think something like this will give you what you want<br><br>> sudo firefox -CreateProfile root<br><br>Then <br><br>> sudo firefox -a root<br>> firefox<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jon Schewe <<a href="mailto:jpschewe@mtu.net">jpschewe@mtu.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Mike Miller wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Jon Schewe wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
>> I've noticed something very odd with firefox recently. The VPN that my<br>
>> company uses is started from a website and since it's a VPN this needs<br>
>> to run as root. So when I login, I start up an xterm (or<br>
>> gnome-terminal) and then execute "sux" to be able to execute X things as<br>
>> root. I then start firefox from that window and the VPN comes up just<br>
>> fine. The odd behavior is that now when I start up another firefox<br>
>> window using my regular user account, the new firefox window attaches<br>
>> itself to the existing one that is running as root, rather than starting<br>
>> a whole new process. Does anyone know how to prevent this?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Not sure. Does this work?...<br>
><br>
> firefox.exe -new-window <url><br>
><br>
><br>
</div>That creates a new window, which is what I already get, but there is<br>
still only 1 process owned by root.<br>
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